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hv oce \ ie ee 20 oll . _ . -EHHB-NOOBEST, - blished Mondays, at Cooperstown, b HENRY w. HOPKIN®. mifig;'rqvil_lago and mail subscribers} ine | ~Hiigher - authority, matter under what ousta) those oaths and obligations they act, , from that moment the Wholg Institu- e e> iipnx'MSWifinh‘MLdfi = {and tremendous, perils proceed, assumes a new relation to society. It is placed =|in the attitude of an aggressor, It rides~ NO. 12. over the laws. It is guilty ; construc- 2-00 fn advance, or $2. 50 at the end of the | ~ -- -- 1i« year :-Thoke who take\ their papers at the of- | Fever and fice, #2 00 :-To Companies of 13, or more,’ ~ = of Ap- who receive their papers at tho office, and pay ; VOL.. III. Hysterics, for them in advance, $1 50, > | artburn.. lt Rates of Advertising.-50 contsper square : ~ --* -- \ agate-1 {Zie‘r’m’g’gg‘ggfigwflx and for every subsequent which we live, and which have arisen « & runic ' ,* All communications addressed to the Ed- and Im- itor must be-free of postage. pre- late Doctor 'by. his can attest iginal Médi . interested bills, blanks, cards, &e. &e. neatly excecuted on new and handsome type, and in a manner 'that will not fail to please. - J mmamsr ome \From the Boston Free Press, 'It is with pride that we present to our read- fs the correspondence betwean the-officers of e Antimagonic State Convention and the Hon. Resin We rejoicg that it is allot il _to_us do throw this heaey woight into the genle which is balaneed 'ogain-<t-the- Institution. The letter of the officers of the State Convention is an able documeat. It pré T sonts Auconry before us in a somewhat difer« 53.9111 light from what it has hitherto Leen pre- iE sented in the public appeals against it. [t does not dwell upon the depravity and wickedness, Apotheca~ tho of com- Medica- did ruct any per- secret of pic- J over re- PRINTING, .-Dooks, pamphlets, hand- , and grown up in the exuberant, soil of Freemasonry. _ Not to mention the sumption of the means required, for purposes of Charity, in vain display or convivial indulgenties; 'we cannot but regard the process:of induction and ini- i tiation through the various degrees of 'the craft, as unfolding a séries of cere- monies, equally puerife abd degrading. ('These-are otgections to the order of na- ssonry - which are-chicfly-torfined to the members (hemsel¥es, and to their fam- ilies, 'There are others, which reach the whole community, and which tend to contaminate the streams of social in- tereourse, and to poison - the sourses of confidence and integrity in every part. <In every city and village the:combined , support and patronage of an affiliate ut the above 51mm inanifest in the murder of Morgan, or up- . ! I 1. I: In athast n affili lg“! not give or -| Tan the impotence of the law, where masonry .. j ' E* <= an , poter R t, ill, Siznals of recognition, but unknown to ife, any infor- #45 concerned, palpably shown . in the shield . 290. & f 35 >- DP a. c_ all besilesacting in concert againt the Lor. -Syhich-the-Institution over its in- . /|; mtv ecw ~ . me mother to the y - . unconscious ranks of their fellow citi- C \jlipled members. It prosents to us , \_> m above _ medi- A zeus, must speedily produce the most ‘gflnw of life. It represents masonry, as con- Mr. John B. € \o ffémisating the streams of socialintercourse and l—r—l‘cflfing—{hc‘ WeaiugdmfiouwM-OLcmfiduruand integ» - be gchuine. B ty--as reaching it «ible hand into the ve- ROBERTS. ipy. temple of justice and exchanging grips and 18th, igns for testimony and truth. It also in Ire-3 . If of Antimasons, expresses that charity to- , ards masons which they have always profes- : Gladly will we hail the day, when ma- s shall renounce their exclusive privileges re the oaths and obligations which con- ‘ heir dutiosaseitisons and christians. **. Justice Oneida Co. Kaleb Stevens, Remsen, .O- from reapec Welc r. Roish, in. his reply, shows a prepared- by me,. ' @ss to meet the subject at all points ; and a hrfh‘lllunglc'fi has - detérmination to stand firm upon feljow fie ground he has taken. Hs fastens upon the ’;\°(‘;li;flélex;tz 3” fess the charge of bowing down, in the lower lence ought to (gap of the lowest depth of subservience to o asonry, and proclaims to the country that the . w has been thrown. from its pedestal and pril 8, 183}; : Masonny planted in- its stead. ** We have er some Ulica “than wont,\ says he, ** to talk of the law be- covered a letter fe col ater > but it is Masox- | ir Dr. Roberts' fly sovension with us ; | but it is Masox-. ‘ t R Rubi-2L; , Sf Ry that is slmzcreign,’ as things now stand.\ | hicfly false. 7 6 friends of equal rights can now congratu- . and little or no fate one another in the prospective succes of | d on any state- elr cause. - Too much strength of character This assertion, ahd of regument is uplifted on their side to be jtions, which come nearer to the every day bu- / striking results, in elevating the ob- jects of their preference 'to office and wealth, and in depr sinalhcir compet- itorsin The same proportion. Such a course of action, and such re- sults have long been discernable thro' 'the wide extent of masonic influence. Nor is it doubted, that advantages of the nature alluded to have been among the strongest allurements, especially to youthful and aspiring candidates, to seckits protection and its ard in the ac- quisition prtromage-and promotion to the exclusion ofothers of equal or supe rior pretensjons, but whose merits have thus been left to langyish in obscurity and despondence. 'The strong tempt- ation thus held out to seize the fruit without the labor of its cultivation has probably been the chief incentive to the volaries of the order. 'The tedious re- petition of senscless forms And the en- durance of degrading mummeries would never have been subinitted to by so many aspirants, from mere curfosify to xplore the vaunted mysteries of the craft, without the stimulus. of benefits, more certain and substantial, ' Here too we may casily discern the real magnet, which even now sustains and holds to- gether the congregated mass of freema- i f . - - rodigal waste o r -| ties as citizen tie Perm lad . ' . . . prodigs a of - time, nor the con-] ties as citizens ard christians. - 'Tleir [ed by its general silence under the foul by the infituated, of the , bowing sons: shall renounce their exclusive | public liberty. - First. lqowever of the: that their press will meddle with it no! privileges, and abjure the oaths andi Press, *= 'more. Is not this enougly to shock ust obligations which conflict with their du- The, thraldom of the Press was evise-' Will more proof be called for, pt mere mome «xs [tively if you will, but obviously and i for the blood of a cilizen. In vain it may illege that its precepts Enculcate CXCe@Pt obedignce to the Jaws, whilst its igno- Rr down ',, bd a ers Cyiol fellow citizens would receive them with deed of Morrin's fuction and mir I ess be 2206 UOWN ranl or wicked members yielate them Morgin's fuction and mur- Uf the press before the unseen, wide-} through a feeling which the lush‘gution cordiality, .and restore them to their der; or by the ab s Peided | sa#eeni i i res iv. abschee that dbgided sa#eening scourge I c Insti- moat. - ® confidence and esteem. - 'Hitherto s | l‘, ; uy the absence of (hat dreide l|\»‘??‘3x,”° of the .“.“5““‘“ Insti 1ist‘nf'ra“:s,m their mindsat'least. - The T esteem. sece- | indignation | with- which it .ought to tution 4, 'The estimable.citizens no leas 2 abit i ano} . ders from their ranks have ehcountered ; have u c / the pr ito mop 54 °o o LLL H i - ie a contre ey a : have fo lowed'it up, sugh- as the press, than accomplished editors to- whom and ' diction tp.cominon sense. It can no the hatred & obloquy of thewholé otder, 'is sure topmanifest in other cakes where | to ivhose press, Phere veptire to allude {uopseer claim p fon LiL d- by their intrepid and | virivais is sured ot! t C repl 0800 ( lunger claim protection like- other bod- e p ts. course.\ great criines are perpetrated; or, what 'in furtherance of the priptiple Phave in \jg { % united ful { y The independence and course ied w \ PC TCC HEC, CCS! £ - [2 [2 les of, men, united fur their own purpo- s [ C age required | was more disreptnnbie wtill, by netuir-'hand, may be well assured \that. it 48 'gog Society and such anInsfitution 7m ormram'r execute a rf‘solnhon to se- ' frequently traating the whole suljeet | done in not the slightest spirit of per- l-‘x‘nnufl‘uggist in safet meer \and> cede, c lnn'onlv be found in a few supe- with levity making it the'pceasion of sonal di - feo aoe\ & rior uyndm, WxUmutzhdnuhL we conrse-ribaldry-ard - unsceimty - +-} Edate-tecay -mmaware of the constrolli Afifirinnwes of society, all the securities ro - r c : n > i : <I CS C majority of the. fquermlyhless gntu {ment. | 'The mends of the pr will sinOuences under - which they labor; that keep it from flying apart stamp this rd and less proyldu'gd (Alum bave eause to Blush, as often as 11:35:1110)’ do not perceive how they breathe soning with truth. / It springs from o ritarie 8 ls hi R ; ; ; j \ M . eged and exalted dzgmlarmy part of its history in our country is re-. them in with the secial atmosphere ; / thy {El-alfupul.ps cf the mind, and is 'as . néud 6 tins , ai a C nul . i & A casily md‘ncul to (cl|.1qln.‘-.!x‘ the ties z'mJ called. - They will feel shame in recol- , how they are dripping with the delete» ratiied by the-covenants of every eode the trappings, with which they find: lecting, that when the liberty and fife: rious damps of Musoury, without now- No lawyer, to jusige, no publicist in, themsclvgs—cncuynffe’jell. ‘Uul the arts | er a citizen werestruck down by a con- ing how they came, any more than the w hatever élmc lxuauiay live unlesghis an}! exertions. of h'e few mlltlmeAlhmr spiracy of vxnaominu‘ry boldness and of the night. _._ undo rstanding Lo Uv, Masonry findwrrrSl—thrrr—mpnhwsyv—hrmp’” maligtuty, an immense majorly of the As To the Law, never in ainy age C\ can gain~ay 7“ force. - The master 4¢ rqcnhng our efforts and chulrgmg‘t'ls American press, as far as I hal any nation was it more completely laid pros- unwind/L lor the servant, the supe- “Illll proacrlbpllnn and. persecution. “c‘ meaus of knowing, to repeat the ex- trate by ony power, than masonry has mor for the inletier, the inany para- . trust, - liowever, the day, approaches} pression of my former letter, if it spoke; done it in the ease of Morgan, If this inount, for him who acts under influ- y is voi P P r R i j Poti . R when the [llfhllb voice shall hf} so lond ; at all, would not speak out ;- that a-; be not enough to consign it to repruba-. ence. - 'The very dog unchained, who and so u‘nnmmous, that the mfah‘mlcd gainst all its nature and habits, it grow | tion in u free state, there is n: Ing €18€. docs injury in the “new, fixes hability am! spel:-[)ound devotees of masonic de- | tame ; or even if at first, to save ap- that will | We have been woul to talk upen the on ter. - These are primordi- llllsnux‘nygsjqulil.bp_awa)kg;q4igugggonLaTnil pearanges, it did. make sume demon- of-the Jew being movenmerec-with ts; -al mitims of jurisprodence; and Emlljol) fully flyI (winning dangers which | strations, and show a guarded indigna- but itis Masoniy that is sovercign, universally. They lie at the foundation eset thein, to the long' des sti i i ing in- as th : is is n individual i iti onmel Ut ne lefe'rledl ranks ; tll‘op, that it soon drew in, becoming in ids things now stand. - This is fo Un- of individual, social, and political safety . me us and friends different, becoming blind, to an un-! considered assertion. I shall proceed Ny governments, no communities, none ’ isto i spea ka o : o ; j r 1 i 5 ; * P cul R | Inine pleasure find salxshcfllmn at : aptnkdhlc outrage, that it knew to be to the proof, with aq confidence than of the links of civil life, could hold to- such a. result of “1m? labors, the oppo- (still unrevenged. | In fact, that it laid. which the hinnan mind never would be gether a day without their shield. They nengs of masonry will forget the un- flu\\'n_rt.s vigilance, its intelligence and ‘juslitied in feeling more, on any moral are the cement of each within itself, and $911ch reproaches so often Toma-ted. 9T} its spirit, at the footstool of Freema (preposition. It restg on evidence strong ' of all to each other. - Let it not be said cing isturbers of the quiet of (herrgsonry. More lieprchenclbl? than all ; ; as adamant, thorgh it be not all techni+! that the responsibility is for civil is- neighbors, promoters nfqtlul‘rels,fi)ment-; that, reversing its true duties, it cal evidence. \ It rests 'on principles conduct, not crime. This is a distinc- , - ab - Thay i 7 + fusions -- legally guilty, It stands responsible - the fatfer way. _ The fimt _ ers of jealousics, selfishly ambitious oft lutely exerted its spirit 'and launched coextensive wi ie civilized w im rai ; honor and office, and wizalcvarehc the I forlhjits \il‘llllfnls lxlormr only aafiilinhlj principles oinl‘tpxngclflVclulllffl‘ N TM) u'u“ a aay MASO'M‘Y‘ nglhmg—L s i ic 2 . cad g falto hus ‘ - mpires have Nobody dreams of indicting innocent desperation of masonic zealots now al- | those who embarked in the pursuit of arisen, and will arise again. Did our leges against thein, It will-be for-them - justice; y-branding that pursuit: as an ' fithers of 70 consult Gilbert's law of only of putting an end to the Institu- a high_ re\l\'lard to set; their present ad- | unnecessa \ excitement 3% and that: evidence, or the chapter in HawkifisAo tion for llhc sufficient reason tlikt guil- versaries liberated from the messhes of finally, in effect, it passed over-the know if every act of oppression against ty Masons chis life gh an igno- a mischieyous delusion, and their coun- | necessary cnnsequencgs of its measured them could Le lochni'cfjllv pmrréd in anilifixlfgsggirfia‘time‘ZIl'lerelsz. try relieved from an inveterate evil.--| step against the crime in the beginning: court 1. Did the English of 1099, or the version of their ties to that Institution This pleasure will be greatly heighten-| -to the side of the offending party, | Freuch of last July, stand upon such Itis this that brim;s legal guilt humo- ed by the reGlection that in effecting! where now it is seen in full juxtaposi-' ductrine 1 'The public safety is not' to the lustitution in (ch question now their cbhject they have coincided in the' tion, administering to Masonry the com-! thus to be cavilled away. It is not, as raised as helwee’n itself and suciety.- views, and in a humble degree contrib-} fort which it needs in this remarkable ; Lord Chatham said, to depend upon 'n shows the Institution to have been uted lolly: suceess, which yourself nnd'l’clluwship. Such, in a word, bas been (books with the leaves turned down in | the moying spring to the crime; the other eminent and highly gifted citi-! the course of the press. Often, in oth- Mugs cars, Every successive day, that' influence paramount that instigated it ; zens hhaymbcen so conspicuous .in ac» pg.- times and countries, it lins been si-! finds the murder of Morgan unavenged; {the superior power, 1 do mot say that complishing. , ilevced by arbitrary will, or bought up' marks a continuation of the outrage‘cummanjcd_u.is is not necessary to We tender you, Sir, in behalf of the | by corrupting gold ; but in this country, | whigh the longer existence of Masonry : the argument-but that caused the Convention, the assurance of our high ,it has been bestridden by Masonry,-; in our country,carmes with it; as , the: crime, Here is enough, (unless indeed respect and consideration, ; Seryitndo.under any cireamstances, is ' Masons who committed it, or knew of this fungus of buman device, this mere masons for the rurder of Murgi} ;* but ® with him, will ~ {I}; thstood. The nlxight of truth will glow more nd some person perfect, , ee (cs, under oath 2) \Tilt alt tim mystic structures; reared so- high ,) that the Med\ sg+Are shattered into heaps. m instructions > #The following is the resolution of the State! Roberts, is pre- - <- ~*Convention, whictrcalled forth the letter of its | nd effect as that tfficers. © | r deceased hus ~£*1 On motion of Mr. Rion: of Worcester, it | spectfully, ~ Nas resolved, that the thanks of this Conven- E?! STEVES. tih be expressed to the Hon. RICHARD RUSH of PonnsyJvania, for his able and patri- ES. otlc exposition of the character and effects of ; . ury, and that the l‘rcsidclhld andl Vice pril 14, 1631. of this Convention, address him a - nmilv,']}ubcm' . Elgar\ to that effect, in their behalf. LETTER TO MI RUSH. by Dr. Jon, Ric ano Rusit--- y thorough tial . Sir-The Convention of Delegates salutary ard een for many . Zn complaint ngs, and for the Edopt such measures as | might C|)l.ll|ll(’c. Kfizd and raised ' ‘alhe snppression or counteraction of use of the first have deputed the under- , she (“5'in no signed, as their organs, to express to \ reat relief. , Be- ~-wou the ligh sense entertained by them- sllfiinu‘mmcfimme gelves and by. (h? numerous 91?!“ u]; especifully, ~~iAbeir fellow citizen's, whom they repre- fipN. SMITH. nled ta That body, of your gruwerful- a, Jan. 1, 1881. pd eloquent exposition in your recent aking your Med- giter, of the same portentous evil.--, ich aflficted with ' r[tho infatuation of a numerous boby of ppetile, my eyes frign in a free country and in an en- ed and had been ~ {ightened state of society, which could | tried various nmmllcf, un- ' Q, ample u - n -BHosrox, Rist May, ___ rom the various parts of this Common- | sonic oaths and obligations have entered *=@wealth, Tately assembtor im tithmeity -to -thechalls of justice; and mingled their sons Through our land, overcoming the strong disapprbbation daily more andi- ble in the utterance of public opimon,. Of public opinion masonry has no fear ; for its decrees masonry has no respect, Arrayed in panoply of mysterious tem- per, shrouded in impenetrable secrecy, surrounded by thousands of blind adhe- tents, and in possession of the strong holds of power and patronage, she hurls defiance and threatens destruction to her assailants. \ She fears nothing from Elf“?! for fihcfllm's _every means fo counteract, defeat and punish it.\ To intimate the possibility that ma- abominations in the purity of its ad- mimairation, has been thought too bold a suggestion. And surely the quiet of society must be fatally disturbed, if the suspicion is awakened, that the se- curity of our property, and our lives is to be sported with by such perhivious influences. Yet certainly the imurder- ers of one victim have been screened by those influences. Hence it is evident the danger exists, and hence the vigi- lance of all, who seek their rights in Courts of Justice, is inevitably aroused, A DACTIYOFULTIER, President ~~Mhomafiating ; but in the depth, / it, sul eTude punishment by clinging (0 craft of man, is to go on with its claim fizzilrllhrfufilfiiflufiuh {there is a lower deep ; and that our | their Masonic obligations, - which they ' to co equality with Christianity,) quite Eparitras Hover, Vice Presidents. } press sliould have bowed down in wor- hold to be superior to the law. Though ' enough, to bring it udder the broad con- Mican H. Recoues, [ship to this Idol, is the step into thatit be even admitted, that this ttises servative maxim of the law to which I deep. A late writer on the Principles from fanaticism in them, which perverts appeal. We must look at the maxim MR. RUSHPS ANSWER. | of Morality,\ Dy mond, whose carly the true iitention of the Masonic obli in its highest reason ; nut merely as Yorx, Pennsylvania, June 80, 4831. ' death those whostand high in lettersin gation, soviety equally: suffers ainl is e- one to le pleaded in a court of common Gentlemen communication ' Britain deplore.as a loss, whilst: qualsy outraged, When the institution, faw, but designed, in the far wider dated the 21st of May, and bearing the discussing the subj.ct of news; apers, affecting to complain of * persecution,\ range of its dignity and justice, to Boston post-mark of the 2Ist of this . utters this striking opinion : \ (hit (here: exclaims \ punish the guilty but nol the throw its protection over mankind. We month, reached me on the 26th instant, are some credifable editors who do karm in innocent,\ it falls into a mockery, which make Masonry amenable to it, in the which 1 mention as it will account for the world, fo an extent in comperisen with affronts society anew ; for it is the yory only way in which the American peo- what might otherw ise seem a luxnrgiplreri- whit]: fol/Effie} nndjfirmwl are as Masonic (llxiithin n “70171; which never ple in their collective capacity, can ap-. val between its date and this acknow1' ing * T give the nassag Tis ow n would Ts place, but Tor the Institution ply its saving eMicaey ; viz: by insis- edgement, emphatic words. If this searching writer. that enaldes the guilty to elude the ting that the Institution which caused The favorable sentiments which, as as he has been called. he was of fhe; law. When, too, the Institution, rear- the ering, be dissolved,. 'The great Deltegatesof a Convention lately assem- ; society of Friends and an honor to that ing its presuinptuous crest to a parallel coroner of the nation-such would the bled in Boston from various parts of the society-could have witnessed in the, with Christianity, teils us that Crimes pregs have been on this einergency if it Commonwealth of Massachusetts to a- | United States the subjection of a large committed in the name of the latter are had not shamefully deserted its post- dopt measures for the suppression of, band ofeditors to Masonry, he woull not allowed to recuil upon religion, and holing an inquest over the dead body Freemasonry, you have been pleased not surely have revoked his opinion. claims for Masonry the same indufzence, -ef M« rgan, coul | render no other ver- to express of the views which I have. On the contrary, astonishment and dis- it advances a claim more audacious dict, if the verdict vovered the whole given to the public upon this subject, gust must have taken possession.of his than absurd ; a claim that no unbiassed ground, than that he came to lis death yicht me a very solid satisfaction. They bosom at perceiving how the press in a mind will notice, tmless to remark up- hy Masons, ond. through Masonry. -If naturally and powerfully tend to con- country proud of its freedom have on its greater sacrilege than sophistry ;. the verdict avere qualified by. saying firm in my own mind the soundness of come under such a yoke ; and, being as if the oaths and grips, and mysteries, | the bad spirit of Masonry, not its good, those views. They demand all my ac- under it, how it could pass from absur- and tities, and the whole train of an- whatdiference wou}! this make to the knowledgements, which I beg leave to dity to absurdity, at one time losing it- ticks, in alliince with which Masonty: naugn, seeing that Masonry, in some tender to you, fally and sincerely. You self in a confusion of the understanding, finds it indispensable to perforin her firm or other, was the source of the have yourselves presented views of the , at another in a tornado of passion, in charties, were all of saered origin ; all whole transaction. 'To the nation there- pon the rights of humanity 'and their eve anxiously roves through : subject, other than those which I took, attempts to excusp itself for not doing jure divian, like the claim cf munatchs fore is Masonry, upon the soundest edicamen- fig wilence the voice of reason and my“ the list ef those, who are to dglrrmm'u !hnl.aro fin.” of importance. The sub- its duty to. the p‘uhh; under an event lllll Ll \m their $1“?an \':~l.>c thulzghib- princ vple'v}, of If::w1 affrumabh: [grailus R ed an almost im- , - Jilggcsfions of conscience, so far as (a; the cqnfrow-rsy. l‘h‘yonvl the ‘nnm'cdl- ject indeed hpf great extent, anfi may as anllwnltqnifsu-r mnrlwvm Inns—1 un f fur |‘.1'|x1fya ‘u v l'uThw 1 (an-1)? r onl » death. ‘c'sa A!) 1.3] lilflvezzz; i|ns axial - Yourr &e: shed mae bromt of by-your-at 1 inoo thei to. mv a be usefully discussed under a variety of try. for drawin2 Out all iis A? an ba guage dan t IMQ M1. 1s u‘\ h UP supreme In.“ which wi ‘ua‘ m. A= JKE DODGE. _nkh depicted in colors so glowing, as sister State, these dangerous tendencies aspects, as d.ferent minds may be wif- most ”Aqua? n. Cy impiors nilation ;. that not content shadowy distinctions in the cast}: £3 RE impress conviction upon every mind. uf masonic obligations have not been Terenfly tnwards it; and thus The ith coming mnt -upen fir“:- tti~-magmtude and concern. TGs froin XV, - i: tle of your. Med must inspire our fellow cilizens equally obvious, perhaps to very great the aggregate of separate contributions (f this month, now les b figs mel- bar nreabdeip UP stietwar is into heav- soury the Commonwealth has received 2A be an excellent the Union,with increasing con- extent may not have existed Yet will in good tune make up the entire 'This newspaper has lor , fren pu dish- rn. detrunent in the destruction of a cili- tld nd loss of MP4 \dad? &; the ullin'xaw sttecess as well' henceforth fhose corrupt trials, sanction-' volume of light with which it ought to « din the capital cE the Una: Por ligh Botaits protonsiens to on form zen, and the eld eastom of Rome should t \ J yeas \mlcmg; I'\“\e\1c° th titude of their cause, ed as they seem to be, cortainly not be encompassed, and vanes mesit, Ton 10. ove that a of the discussing mto Wwiach 1 be revited the ceof's must take: care k? above I heartily as in .“,c JET.\ aect lamad Linaroied, by the must in In the fetter which has. drawn forth if is evemeds d by apt n fil ba (him Gil hd nut gil ng cua {psi tua. TG, that it reep ves no mare 3 A. SPENCER | .;:g,y’gp‘l§ll:e“sl:ém§l':: learning“. and gxpc-n- \fuse the pnisr'm of their «(c-umpie thro' your obfiging communication to me, it «ny other coot'ry. PS oc Ca 7h al J‘: dy concern Prat < n‘u‘TT‘ ito tirge can . 'This conservative \if“? (ff ”WP—m -# aitéo of the mn.s( eminent stateemen and the entire sphere of its influence. The was my whject to hold up the dangers lesor to a | i'l sun u ed V.» ny fal ave w 3 a bh de on Sener, is st'en;n If: roadest lam. mac-x i, May 14, 1831. ablars of our countre. If the Press: danger is neither imaginary nor trifling; of Masonry as seen in the contest it has in its hunrr.‘ C ex: moo op Se ies ve ote and er ats , «xo mo pesoate In: hon when in fires .c§wccn unafm at:j fifibeen bribed or awed! into silence, and even the jealousies, engendered by waged with the LAW in Murg’fin’s ease, chieveus ort! y acts ~I 1. ay rs se lnty \. “If“ Ev. aie L'un‘ baton. The p“(|\p|]a“n')’(lln( (Tm 1, . that 1 bave been And has suffered the community to slum- the morhid: condition of communities, and the victory it has won. That part vated in man', they reson t spy a lat to tsl da due cy cf ent nations. acknow 'edge its indisputa- a ts oul be state sala fam pract s ais tw is, Le vucith's Horee governments, ard five years past fast > where masonry blends' its uncongenial of the subject, and, in direct connection thei es n views (f an' c 0 F in delusive security with an enemy R _ R , wr aol - kl? 1daking among them ond clandestinely principles with the clements of society, with it, the enslavemont of so great a fairly 6 ed tos 4 o Wi uae non oes Lean ad ut Let consequentls natu:ns,nrc held respon em__qent Pai 5 o se ; as erially wrakon the vencratuion portion of onur Newspaper presses fo they doffir and nero to (o} tems a os <5. gts eas ofx Cher beneve osuble for a i ere imdognity offered to the received little or ing the strong helds of their hberty ; mast materially l1 A hich al R 2 foal ad on , mea iba other rein fa of another natien I sth I i and el ofthe public for jrleral decisions, anl N nry , wese thase vpencw bach aleme cn ces hae t's B . . buss at ® p « etrzen a b tien, began using Dro itsito the wisdom, and virtze, an os I r-) Mike strouzest p-C T mes mt to dwell. 1 thought thee of ch if car Sot ovi oelaare os was el aUosochoat ectnsbigtes. although the nation, collectively with- Medicamentam, ence of those, whose counstis Live: thus endanger one of the strougzest pi meant C \ ® & ous Yeoh what | fies. as hose lmats the indignity may haye which -I have ex- ~- -g atways been heart with defer- lora our happy institutions. points plain and practical, cand othe wath pore mallu? M > et, what atu s ora «es and pasinges, as in whose lmats the indignil3 Er.\ : isi - les with success, that- With the deceptive character of the ground under each. so stronc, that oni 4a my eyes behold Tho ; aper, cate |. ngasiikeeps wob in Cs kith Tinots, been committed, be frcc‘filififir XE]: anil ‘Unokd u p u . - . 1 1 t - « lai the » a e p. se « t ¢ > ~ “mid to ever} § He people inst look to enlighten and pretensions of masonry to scientific ex-! was impossible not to stand firmly np (id asst is. 1 halk os ora vag the ime must bevel ie passe d. li patatin of an intentional gui J with d valuable medi- g- ‘i’d'o’ “Izmir? collence and to extraordinary charity, f on it. Asfurther reflection leads me to NJ other anfofwats nou cat ex poroasam nnder the beense tory abounds with [57:0]: fi‘f's’x‘fli, the | * m els , c t. amd ses all on lo dil f as 2 op ku tr. Cb. ra tom e cfoats accounts d ware followed u 'While we recoil with horror atthe the public have been made fully ac- , think it stull stronger than at first, and ses a P I [ SSU LC ts Sue or me a rom ing out. of . quainted by the disclosures of some of as I have now, in addon, year valued that t \ 05 cour nam eds ug a ais om cont ecm vorthrew oi & ~ dé‘pravity and wickedness; . which led the Immolatien of a devoted martyr the mest canlid and respectable of its | approbation, : M of despot: power a- fipfl‘gggsflbjects 50394 believe i of private and ight fess flagrant woul) in drions. era of our early history, a in flim-absence of other guevances, a horde of desperate ruffians, insti- members. wh the a qaterni arrogattog to it-; to abjare Thcit tice. al cesses of the Lodge. But the evils we ; F i B because it is of the of the case as f it wirs would avert or exterminate. and folion with Maseory, becaute : e . of the a - f ~ i hes - ore of! atmost moment that iis tme doctrines laree part of Their s us feaders , capg defecuwh Jry them-. ro the ec'rage , fof the French Minis besides - that ef. others ef mt es df fo 2 lush F must be uncgras wal and them. ol mught mentine. st a Very j ; ~ ; R rueral doe- who have had the courage | my fellow citizens whose approbation :ing an er \Lon he I nere must be no excep- fresh stinenation of the £\*€ P 8°, . L will ed fim , A bry even ;opoapa das ca just p. irsged by Frauce ___ , re- -Batterina Lwill-els -- - - ans - paratively harmless beasts and even? your indulgence whilst 1 shrmow cnt a' ife or- a 5 = efor n Ca The moment How fis vered feng a squad?\ m, nflwt Tat. ! - ' ‘ W : aa . guce as > ao beracas btlens yo , doz: be: the degra hs reat- \its poerite céteim-ries and its ridiratows 'few mare ideas under the rame heads, by (he ablaciion sume isurs <_, of d pits. persons lo this gus. to avenge ( r}: Tg “i; in Lis- pageantry, we willingly leave to be and perhaps incrdentaliy npon: some! son by fhe name of Murc a A prao san oonepire against the WhSTF and ment shown toa UJ A hr:- ‘hxiaetl” P'r-‘ichted and ezm'nvkd in the re-' others. Tt is of the Law of which I sox sv sue samfour Vo Roay '~ Gae mos out zen who hed brakemio las Son: sithoogh rf woek! sppear to bid \ ) . - P 1 p C chicfiy desire to speak, in its conne®- Thie do thesee€peries~ {0 Uiforsspechk [the lat f. lut merelsso me afots oven f s a deme) that tre Portuguese hing sol new to a auicis, an} when theso persons can +5- ; Don MigueP ped given any sanction -have kindfifi the flame of revolution : ~ us to advert to other evils, whjcb ye Jong existed, though but partial perceived by the community. in :DICINES. '# \ Dregs & Mesicines urpentine, &c, Jot S & BEADLE 1, Iss. inns <. hak whic have-befer such a nature, that the fabric of society ' should be understood. is endangered by their contmuance - Cladty sC) we harl the day, when ina N do all which probably was the (1h. Ft seems selves that the vo'ustary oaths and ter's met6 of Fecialentiun, ubs Yuk ust woul - ma cit f 24 a . cane kas od ke neuuvely to say ue civil rights depend npon the fme tn } ars heen thefe ols they bad ather seh sssamed ou gavone what' derfa vely y that had wor ci [3 pe P\ wa Had Lisbon even beea iinderstan jing of 'them hat ales woth 9, aod n ir l hind nem fo the brecberhant cre o:
